SE Drops Front End of Road Trip

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.  – Southeastern fell behind early and found itself playing catch-up all night in an effort that fell short, dropping Thursday night's matchup at Henderson State 106-72 in Arkadelphia, Ark.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 15-9 overall and 12-7 on Great American Conference play heading into a Saturday afternoon matchup with Ouachita Baptist at 3 p.m.
 
Aaron Jacob came off the bench to lead SE in scoring with 18 points on 6-of-11 shooting with a pair of threes, while also adding a team-best eight rebounds.
 
Brennen Burns would finish with 12 points and added four assists and four steals.
 
Landon Condiff was the third an final Storm player to crack double-figures, finishing the contest with 11 points.
 
RJ Weeks would dish out a team-best five assists while Jett Sternberger matched Burns with four.
 
Robert Briley would nearly match Jacob on the glass, finishing the game with seven boards.
 
Southeastern would find itself behind big early as HSU scored the first 13 points of the contest.
 
The Storm would finally end that run with a Leslie bucket just over three minutes in but the offense was not clicking in the early going and the Reddies would push its lead to 40-18 by the 8:55 mark of the first half.
 
A pair of Sternberger free throws would help kick off a 9-4 run that included buckets from Leslie and Aaron Jacob as well as a Burns three.
 
However, HSU would respond with the next five points before a Jacob three with 1:44 to play in the first half would set the halftime score at 49-30.
 
The Reddies would open the second half on an 8-2 run which the Storm would find an answer for, with Sternberger hitting a layup to trigger a 9-0 answer that was capped by Burns to close the deficit to 57-41.
 
That was as close as they would get however, as HSU responded with a 17-2 run that pushed its lead beyond 30 points and Southeastern would never truly recover en route to a 106-72 loss.